Some of the best times of my life are the times I didnt have the Idiot box hooked up. I get a lot more fishing and reading done when I don't have the box, also get more sleep.
Eric
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Some of the best times of my life are the times I didnt have the Idiot box hooked up. I get a lot more fishing and reading done when I don't have the box, also get more sleep.
Eric
We terminated our local broadband service today, got an antenna set up ( professsionally installed on the metal roof of our two story house - no way I'd go up there ), and hooked up the digital converter.
We are down to seven channels, at least for the time being, to include the major networks and PBS, plus a couple odd ones. But the picture quality ( not HD ) is on a par with what we had before, and the digital converter set up has some features we didn't have before.
Deborah said it nicely - it is "liberating" to be free of the cable companies, and it is free, after the initial equipment and installation costs.
I'd drop the cable and go back to the antenna in a second if I even got 4 channels that had a decent picture but it won't work where I am. Dial up is terrible here too so I'm stuck with the cable for now...
And...I'm thinking my wife, rather than feeling liberated, would feel 'cut off', even though wife doesn't pay any attention to the several shopping channels...thankfully !
Cheers,
MontanaMoose
digital tv is NOT hd tv. dont be confused
http://www.dtv.gov/whatisdtv.html
I guess the year and a half of warnings we've already been thru weren't enough. Anyone who isn't already aware, either doesn't watch tv, or doesn't have any comprehension of what they are watching. In either case, if their screen suddenly went blank, they'd never know the difference.